Books & arts
3 December 2018
Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
From the archive
16 November 2018
Peter Jackson’s vivid account of the Great War is also a tribute to the art of the cinema
Essays & reportage
9 November 2018
A little-known incident captures divisions among Australians during the first world war
Essays & reportage
9 November 2018
A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal?
Essays & reportage
9 November 2018
How is Austria marking the centenary of the end of the empire?
Books & arts
31 October 2018
Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister
Essays & reportage
30 October 2018
A visit to Thirroul and the man who remembers D.H. Lawrence
Essays & reportage
29 October 2018
Forty-five years ago, Sylvia Martin was among the actors who performed in the earliest productions at the Sydney Opera House
Books & arts
26 October 2018
Exhibition | A carefully thought-out exhibition creates a compelling narrative out of everyday lives
Essays & reportage
11 October 2018
Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century?
Books & arts
1 October 2018
Australian suffragettes played a sometimes flamboyant role in the fight for the vote, at home and in Britain
Essays & reportage
26 September 2018
The influential fortnightly magazine Nation was launched in Sydney sixty years ago today. In this essay first published in 1989, one of its best-known contributors…
Essays & reportage
24 September 2018
The Ramsay Centre is still seeking a home for its Western civilisation course, but the concept itself doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
Correspondents
13 September 2018
Are America and Australia two allies separated by a common language?
Essays & reportage
27 August 2018
While Fairfax’s future seems likely to be in the hands of Nine, much of its past has recently been made accessible at the State Library of New South Wales. At a symposium…
Essays & reportage
9 August 2018
A visit to the site of Wyndham’s Native Hospital prompts the question: what does it mean to live outside the protection of the state?
Essays & reportage
2 August 2018
Extract | As the first world war approached, anxiety grew about the vulnerability of Australia to attack from the north. A key role was played by the man who would be the…
National affairs
31 July 2018
From the archive | The Age’s history shows how Fairfax’s strategy put the paper’s identity at risk
National affairs
27 July 2018
Australia’s last great media upheaval gave Rupert Murdoch the green light to dominate the press
National affairs
26 July 2018
When Channel Nine last tried to gain control of Fairfax, the broadcaster’s proprietor ran into trouble and an old friendship was sundered
Essays & reportage
14 July 2018
On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Books & arts
6 July 2018
Books | Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
4 July 2018
Books | Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite
From the archive
2 July 2018
Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present
National affairs
2 July 2018
Have Australian conservatives lost sight of the core features of their own philosophy?
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century
Books & arts
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
National affairs
26 June 2018
Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far?
National affairs
18 June 2018
The weekend’s call to privatise the ABC wouldn’t have impressed the founder of the party